Last of the old year - "English" HYW Commanders

The Black Prince has already been seen, but I've added his standard carried by Sir Richard Fitzsimon plus Jean de Grailly, Captal de Buch.

I couldn't find who might carry Jean's standard so I used Denis de St Omer, Sieur de Morbecque who captured King John II of France at Poitiers

Romanian Artillery - part 1

I painted all the Hat Romanian Artillery figures, but until I acquire some more guns (some suitable 105mm howitzers) I will leave half unbased. These were based up to go with the very nice but fiddly First to Fight 75mm guns. The limbers are Hat WW1 German and the limber horses Zvezda Napoleonic French, so this certainly clear a bit of the stash.

At the back are some of my old gunners (Airfix German mountain troops) rebased with a couple of PSC Pak 97/38s

Burgundian Artillery

I have painted the Zvezda Medieval Field Artillery I bought at Recon as Burgundians. I added a Jean de Vergy, Marshal of Burgundy figure alongside the pointing commander. At the back an unit of coustiliers made up from various odd figures.

Medieval bystanders

The figures from the Italeri Jousting Knights set are useful for the inhabitants of either a camp or a castle. The knights themselves were awful so I sold them.

WW1 French Artillery

I wasn't very happy when I bought the Hat WW1 French Artillery and I sold all but one sprue. However when I came to assemble the First to Fight version I realised I needed a guide so I assembled the Hat version. Here it is, my sole piece of WW1 French equipment and maybe the beginnings of a Corps d'Observation d'Andrevie

I notice when studying the pictures that some of the paint has not taken to the horrible soft hat plastic, I'll now have to sort it!

Thanks Santa

A reasonable selection of gifts this year

The sailors will be used to crew some Renaissance galleys, so scratch building those will be one of my projects for next year.

A small hole in the stash

Merry Christmas to one and all. I've managed to complete a couple of First to Fight kits before the festivities. The Praga RV truck is for my Romanians and the Panzer III has be painted up as a very early war version with the brown camouflage stripes



Hopefully I should get the rest of my schedule for December completed bafore the end of the month so keep watching